-- To the person concerned about the bumping and grinding at the Murphy prom: Your mama and daddy tried to warn you about that Elvis Presley music. But you wouldn’t listen.

Hoop and holler class

-- I don’t know what everybody’s talking about. I love the way the girls were dancing at the Murphy High School prom. Maybe the Azalea Trail Maids should learn how to dance like that.

Not even a gum wrapper

-- I challenge all the people who throw trash out on the rivers, lakes, streets, streams, highways and woods to volunteer for the Great American Cleanup on April 28 and clean up their own mess. I’m 86 years old and I’ve been living in Mobile for 45 year and I have yet to throw out even a gun wrapper.

‘Y’ are they doing this?

-- I have been a member of the Downtown YMCA since 1993 and none of the members I know is happy about the move. This is one of the best workout facilities and locations of any gym in Mobile. And they’re going to move it to a location with very little parking? And they’re going to move to a building they couldn’t give away?

Pray while resting

-- To those always talking about President Obama and blaming him for the gas prices: Don’t blame him, just pray for him.

End free ride in Semmes

-- I think it’s about time for the city of Semmes started hiring its own police officers. The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office has been patrolling this area for them free of charge for long enough and county tax dollars have taken care of this bill.

Stick to bingo, potlucks

-- I heard there were many churches last Sunday who asked their members to take a flier supporting the Mobile tax hike. Preachers are not supposed to get involved in politics. They’re not supposed to tell you how to vote.

Just dwindle away?

-- It seems to me the real question is not the penny sales tax. The real question is, are we going to let all the services we have in Mobile just dwindle away to nothing? None of us likes taxes. However, if you want to correct things, do it by voting and vote for people that are going to do things right.

It was ‘spot-on’

-- Contrary to the complaint of Alfa Insurance’s head lawyer, I found J.D. Crowe’s characterization of the lawyer’s boss as a vampire feeding on coastal homeowners spot-on. If Alfa wants to polish its tawdry image, it should stop its efforts to kill the Alabama legislation forcing insurance companies to show premium charges compared to the miniscule pay-outs.

Mercy needed

-- Our home was burglarized the other day and if the thieves are reading this, I hope they would return one item of the many they took. The class ring belonging to our deceased daughter is the only thing we’d like back. It meant so much to us. We’re in our late 60s and it’s just not right. Please have mercy. If you have that ring, leave it in our mailbox.